Do I have a Yellow Belly?

[iCandiBallPythons]

Killer flames inbetween the pattern

[snakesRkewl]

Looks like a yellow belly but without "belly shots" I can't say for a 100%

[Lolo76]

Looks like a yellow belly but without "belly shots" I can't say for a 100%

Those photos aren't from the original poster... it's Darkice's confirmed (I assume) yellowbelly. Nice looking snake too!

[snakesRkewl]

Those photos aren't from the original poster... it's Darkice's confirmed (I assume) yellowbelly. Nice looking snake too!

Doh, ty, I should have known better
Yes, it is a nice looking yb from the sides, I just don't usually commit on yb's without the belly shot.
Even after hatching out several clutches of them

[Lolo76]

The one thing I do know is that the man at the store (My snake was bought from a professional reptile store, it was really nice, not a petco or something, so I trust his judgement.) said he was heterozygous. His mom was an albino, his dad a normal. My snake, looks normal.

If your snake is het for albino, it would still look normal... they only carry the gene, and visual albinism won't be seen until breeding with another het (or visual). As for being a yellowbelly, we can only know by seeing photos!

FYI: Here's my pair of het albinos, and you can see they look like normal BPs - although the boy does have a cool pattern. But even among normals & hets there is great variety, as shown by these two:

[Lolo76]

Doh, ty, I should have known better
Yes, it is a nice looking yb from the sides, I just don't usually commit on yb's without the belly shot.
Even after hatching out several clutches of them

LOL... I still can't quite tell the difference, so I keep my mouth shut altogether!

[Lillyponygirl]

Yep, I knew about the het albino -- he carries the gene, and I also researched his offspring % lf albinos.

Again, I'll try to get the photos today.

[rabernet]

A few years ago - YB males were a few hundred dollars - add in the layer of being 100% het albino to the mix, and I imagine a male YB that was also het for albino would have gone for around $500.

YB is a visual morph - this link helps explain what the markers are for a YB.

http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=45579

For a reference, this is what my YB female's belly looks like - see the "checkerboard" patterning along the edges of her belly?

[davidyun]

they actually have a yellow belly..
is that a normal? isnt that a tiger or something?
the first picture..

[davidyun]

@lolo76